What Role Does Religion Play Within Our Military?

I chose, "This is not an issue." The chaplain is the only person in the military that has a water-tight clause preventing them from saying anything you tell them to anybody. Don't believe me? Try it! You can't tell the doctor or therapist you're going to kill someone, or even yourself. They still have to inform the authorities and your chain of command. The Chaplain is the only person that you can confess to grievous bodily harm, and they have to keep quiet. It helps a lot of people that are seeking/crying out for help, but don't want to be kicked out for being depressed or hurting inside.

There are two answers to this. Religion should have absolutely no role in the military as an organization (I find religion to be encouraged by many a CO, which is grossly unacceptable and a violation of the constitution). However, its members should feel free to practice their religion, so long as it remains a personal experience, with reasonable attempts made to accommodate one's religion so long as it doesn't interfere with unit cohesion, moral, or mission.

In essence what you are saying is to take away the 1st amendment constitutional right of freedom of religion from the very defenders of the constitution. Makes a lot of sense....said one ever.
You have a right to believe in whatever you wish to believe in. The problem is when you don't want others to believe in their faiths in order to make you feel comfortable with your decisions.

Religion is a choice. It should never be forced, nor should it play a factor in a SM's career. If you choose to be religious, then kudos. If not, cool.

Personally, I am not religious. However, when doing a Change of Command/Change of Responsibility, I bow my head to maintain uniformity. I don't pray, but I go through the motions, and I am not in any way offended by it.

I don't see why it is a big deal to keep religion in the Military. As I said before, if people complain, I think it is because they can, not because they are really offended by anything.

Keep it the way it is, there are services available if you choose to seek them out. This is the optimal balance. We are not preaching but we can find services if desired in most circumstances other than combat (which is understandable).

Sparenly, but yes, lol!

Oh no, not again. Someone needs to research "Separation of Church and State" because there's no violation.

I never saw religion as a big part of the military, its a big part of the person and the military provides religious leaders of various faiths to provides the religious services to service members. I have had people make fun of me over my years of service for attending Catholic mass, I have seen people all of a sudden get religious after 9/11. Its up the person and I think that the military does a great job of supporting those with religious needs with the restrictions that can come with your service location, such as a ship underway, its almost impossible to have a Kosher kitchen for the Jewish service members but I have seen them be accommodated on special occasions with being allowed to prepare certain items for their celebrations. So I say leave it alone, there will always be people in need or not in need of it and no one forces anyone to attend a service of any type.

Here's my problem with the whole situation as a follower of a pagan religion I was discriminated by my highly catholic nco who even had a chaplain bless our small arms repair shop. I didn't mind that however the nco in question on more then one occasion made it his duty to try to convert the "heathen". I went to eo and up the chain of command multiple times they'd lecture him in front of me and then two days later he was back at it. One day I lost my temper and asked to speak freely which he granted. I told him to take his religion and shove it. I know it was wrong however the next day I received an article 15 for disrespect. Honestly religion does have its place but when others are not respected for their religions we become as bad as the extremist Arabs. Also I don't believe many Christians realize how much they discriminate until they are discriminated against.

Absolutely. Faith keeps us going and hope up which allows a better troop as having a higher power allows troops to have someone to be there for them in a time of extremely tuff situations.